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Single Idea 21537
[filed under theme 11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 1. Perceptual Realism / b. Direct realism
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Full Idea
I prefer to advocate ...that the object of a presentation is the actual external object itself, and not any part of the presentation at all.
Gist of Idea
I assume we perceive the actual objects, and not their 'presentations'
Source
Bertrand Russell (Meinong on Complexes and Assumptions [1904], p.33)
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'Essays in Analysis', ed/tr. Lackey,Douglas [George Braziller 1973], p.33
A Reaction
Although I am a fan of the robust realism usually favoured by Russell, I think he is wrong. I take Russell to be frightened that once you take perception to be of 'presentations' rather than things, there is a slippery slope to anti-realism. Not so.
Related Idea
Idea 21536
When I perceive a melody, I do not perceive the notes as existing [Russell]
The
16 ideas
with the same theme
[we are in direct contact with reality]:
21337
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A knowing being possesses a further reality, the 'presence' of the thing known
[Aquinas]
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22130
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Scotus defended direct 'intuitive cognition', against the abstractive view
[Duns Scotus, by Dumont]
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3943
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If existence is perceived directly, by which sense; if indirectly, how is it inferred from direct perception?
[Berkeley]
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23662
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The existence of ideas is no more obvious than the existence of external objects
[Reid]
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14866
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It always remains possible that the world just is the way it appears
[Nietzsche]
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21537
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I assume we perceive the actual objects, and not their 'presentations'
[Russell]
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5377
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'Acquaintance' is direct awareness, without inferences or judgements
[Russell]
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22160
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Our relationship to a hammer strengthens when we use
[Heidegger]
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5678
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Scientific direct realism says we know some properties of objects directly
[Dancy,J]
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5681
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Maybe we are forced from direct into indirect realism by the need to explain perceptual error
[Dancy,J]
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6549
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I think greenness is a complex microphysical property of green objects
[Lycan]
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6355
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Direct realism says justification is partly a function of pure perceptual states, not of beliefs
[Pollock/Cruz]
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6643
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'Ecological' approaches say we don't infer information, but pick it up directly from reality
[Lowe]
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19526
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Surely I am acquainted with physical objects, not with appearances?
[Williamson]
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16374
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There is a continuum from acquaintance to description in knowledge, depending on the link
[Recanati]
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8417
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Direct realism is false, because defeasibility questions are essential to perceptual knowledge
[Galloway]
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